The forty-eight-hour miracle that saved USS Yorktown and turned the tide at Midway
How 1,400 shipyard workers repaired USS Yorktown in 72 hours, giving the Navy the third carrier that won the Battle of Midway.
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The Lake Michigan warbird graveyard and the freshwater fighters pulled from the bottom and restored to fly again
Dozens of WWII warbirds rest on Lake Michigan's bottom, sunk during carrier training near Chicago and now being recovered and restored to fly.
TaildraggerThe Grumman F6F Hellcat and the fighter designed from day one to kill the Zero
How the Grumman F6F Hellcat was engineered from captured Zero data to dominate the Pacific air war with a 19-to-1 kill ratio.
TaildraggerThe Lake Michigan warbirds and the Navy trainers pulled from freshwater graves to fly again
Dozens of WWII Navy trainers rest on Lake Michigan's bottom, and the remarkable recoveries are producing airworthy warbirds decades later.
TaildraggerThe Grumman F6F Hellcat and the airplane designed from day one to kill the Zero
The Grumman F6F Hellcat was purpose-built to defeat the Zero and accounted for 75% of all Navy air-to-air kills in the Pacific.
TaildraggerThe Grumman F6F Hellcat and the Great Marianas Turkey Shoot
The Grumman F6F Hellcat achieved a 19-to-1 kill ratio and destroyed Japanese naval aviation at the Battle of the Philippine Sea.
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